Without authentication, you'll only be able to get public content. So if that message UID is in a private area that would otherwise require authentication, you won't be able to get it from the API without authentication. ... View more

Services generally doesn't add tracking code unless it's at the customers direction. And on many projects I work on, the customers themselves will add the tracking code, because they have been given the specific instructions to implement from the tracking provider and their SEO team, and all we do is point to where the code should be added in studio. I'm glad you were able to solve this. ... View more

One hacky option could be to increase the number of users you fetch from the API ("msgCount"), then as you're looping through the users, check some metric (i.e. number of posts) and decide if you want to include them on the leaderboard. Another possible option is in admin you can exclude certain roles from the leaderboards. You could play with that and possibly exclude new users (depending on your current role/rank structure). Otherwise, there is no way to determine where the kudos came from. ... View more